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  1. curbur
    I'm so curious now lol..
  2. curbur
    Option 2 would be amazing! I'm not getting my hopes up lol..
  3. curbur
    I'm part of the class that picked the Aragon Wildcats with purple and white. I'm not sure who the hell loved K State so much. Wow, didn't realize that you're younger than me.
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    Houston will have a ridiculously nice skyline one day stretching from downtown to uptown, gobbling up greenway plaza as part of it in the process. The only downside is pretty much none of us will be alive to see it by the time it happens.
  5. curbur
    doshi house is part of the transformation though lol.. man I love their cappucinos.
  6. curbur
    Looks awesome for Katy; I hope all suburbs get these town centers, I just wish they'd be a little more grandiose in the way The Woodlands Town Center or City Centre were built. I'll believe that retention pond on the SE corner of Katy Mills will look like the above rendering when I see it, but overall this is promising. I'd probably be a tad pissy if I lived in Pin Oak Village or Falcon Point, especially the parts that are going to be adjacent to the district. At least they'll be in close proximity to all the new commercial; imagine, a Vintage Park that you can hop your fence into!
  7. curbur
    Well aware, I was just kidding. There does seem to be a stock photo of an audi inserted into almost every rendering on here.
  8. curbur
    You got a problem with my Audi?
  9. curbur
    Credit to /u/asdgadgasvsadva for posting this on reddit:
  10. curbur
    But you can't say it isn't looking beautiful in that part of downtown SF since they have started to get developed though, or that it's not adding to SF's skyline.
  11. curbur
    I don't think we'll ever warrant a supertall unless the density continues to increase the way it has this past cycle closer to Chicago levels, (11,864.4/sq mi compared to it being 3,662/sq mi now).
  12. curbur
    I don't think it's to help traffic patterns downtown really, but to help spur more growth downtown and provide for a larger district for the urban core.
  13. curbur
    These are fair points, but you know that it will affect some home buyers' opinion of the area still regardless.. I mainly just wanted a Cypress station to be honest :/. On another note, I wonder what this will do to the current roadmap plans of having Greenhouse extend to Skinner and having Mason and other Katy roads extend all the way up to 290 if this rail corridor is completed before they are.
  14. curbur
    http://www.texastribune.org/2015/09/08/texas-bullet-train-moving-forward-despite-obstacle/ .. .. . There goes any chance of this thing not being a huge detriment to Cypress. 62 trains a day means roughly 31 from each station, and a generous schedule of how long they'd be open per day let's say is 6am-12am, so (18*60)/31 is roughly every 35 min. You're telling me that all the newer Cypress neighborhoods south of 290 will have to wait 3-5 min EVERY 30 min to cross the tracks and get to where nearly all the restaurnts and major retail centers are located? Not to mention the majority of the homes going up within a mile south of this rail corridor are all in the $350k-$2 million range; I wonder what effect these trains will have on home prices given that it will be frequent, noisy and not accessible to the residents who have to live along it. What's even worse about this part of the rail corridor is that these homes don't have location going for them like those along the Washington ave. stretch of the rail corridor to help save their values. Aside from my own bias and desires, I really think they could rake in a lot of extra cash from having 1-2 suburban stops in each city that they only service every hour or two while other express trains skip on by them. It's a real bummer that it sounds like that won't be the case.
  15. curbur
    Not trying to take away from how amazing this would be if built, but I don't really like how wichita st appears to be removed from main to fannin in the last image.
  16. curbur
    I also think the northwest mall is probably the best and most practical solution. I know it probably isn't feasible really, but I keep thinking how nice a station would work out if they could somehow extend the green line up washington and connect it to some newly expanded metro terminus involving the hsr line, then shoot another rail line from it elevated on i-10 out to memorial and maybe katy, build a commuter rail up 90 from sugarland to near the astrodome/medical center, perhaps extend the red line up to exxon somehow, and do whatever they're going to do long term with post oak that connects it to the nw mall terminus also. Personally, that site seems more centrally located to other employment centers than downtown is, and with all those connections we'd start to really have a somewhat cohesive transit rail network. Admittedly, I have no clue how the i-10 line and stops would work; it would just be nice.
  17. curbur
    Is this dead? My balcony looks over this site and there's 3-5 ft shrubs/weeds covering it.
  18. curbur
    Wouldn't it be more economical to build a link from Ft. Worth to Dallas, and then on to Houston? Or are they scrapping the proposed station locations south of DT Dallas?
  19. curbur
    It is good for the area, but I do agree with the comments stating the roads need to be widened or the park should be off 99 somewhere nearby.
  20. curbur
    It won't happen but man would it be so grand and smart. Connect all the light rails and maybe even commuter rails down the line and it could be Houston's version of Penn Station someday.
  21. curbur
    Most of the suburban park and rides in the outlying suburbs have adequate parking, so I'm not sure why you think this would be any different. In addition, it's not like people would have to give up their cars entirely or have to utilize mass transit everyday, but it certainly would be a convenient option for some days. You're telling me you wouldn't want an additional hour or two every day on the train where you can work on stuff/stream videos/listen to music while relaxing instead of fighting traffic?
  22. curbur
    Perhaps for the clothing and condos, but a lot of the rental units and restaurants are going to have comparative prices to other surrounding areas.
  23. curbur
    I think locally around each stop it definitely would be used a lot, especially the further out you go. Ridership may potentially start out low overall but will definitely build with time, and will allow for the city to continue growing. As traffic gets worse in the coming decades, if there were no existing options, the traffic could potentially start affecting the quality of life enough to make residents and companies no longer want to be located here. These commuter rails will be the solution, if not absolutely 100% necessary today, they will be in the future. I thought about that as well, but I could see a potential issue regarding sharing the track when the HSR line is coming through. Perhaps they could build out the commuter line on the same ROW space if there's enough room, although I can tell you right now that currently there's a bunch of areas where there wouldn't be room to add multiple (4) track lanes. I'm still confused how they're going to be able to widen it to 2 lanes for inbound and outbound traffic.
  24. curbur
    If there's any silver lining to the hempstead tollway being delayed half a decade or more, it's that maybe they'll put in a commuter rail in down the middle of it. Then again if Cypress does really get that HSR stop like some people are speculating, then this corridor would need a commuter line the least.
  25. curbur
    That's exactly what I was wondering about; my mom recently bought a house in Towne Lake and I'm curious what the effects might have on home values.
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